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The philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment were the first in modern times to systematically question the notion that political power and privilege should be inherited from generation to generation by monarchs or aristocrats. Some argued that the hereditary principle violated the basic precept that all human beings were created equal. Others regarded it as […]